If you're in a photo, you're welcome to save these Internet-sized images from our 15 Minutes photo galleries onto your own computer or device. We do ask that if you share on social media, please credit the photographer and the Shoofly Magazine! 15 Minutes Photo Galleries are sponsored bySmith & Lens Gallery

Lucious Spiller performs at 100 Men Hall on Feb. 15! Click the photo for details on this and other Shoofly "Don't Miss" happenings!

Staff picks of local happenings

How can a small town have so much going on? See the Shoofly Magazine's pick of top events for the coming weeks and mark your calendars. We update it every week, so there's always something new!​Sponsored by Carroll House B&B

Local Living!

The Shoofly Magazine focuses on lifestyle in Bay St. Louis and its sister city of Waveland on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. New issues are published the first non-holiday weekday of every month, with updates and breaking news published weekly. Want to know more? Read our mission statement and history.

Jaimee and Joel Dorris, first place winners, Dancing With the Relay Stars. Photo by Brenda Comer

Who's Getting Their 15 Minutesof Fame?Check out our photo galleries of local events! You're welcome to copy the photos to your own computer. We simply ask that you credit the Shoofly Magazine! ​​sponsored by Smith & Lens Gallery

BSL's Jace Ponder Wins PR Professional Award Read more about Jace - and more! - in Living Large.

Recognitions Well-DeservedLiving Large features locals in the limelight — both businesses and individuals. We update this page frequently, so stop in often! Newest stories will be at the top. Know a candidate for Living Large? Email us!

The French Potager, a Feb. Second Saturday Hot Spot. Read more in our story!

Second Saturday Artwalk: February 9th​During the Second Saturday Artwalk each month in Old Town Bay St. Louis, you'll find cool deals, fresh meals and lots of art and live music!​- stories by Caroline St. Paulcolumn sponsored by BSL Creative Arts Center

Be sure to check out "Hot Spots" The French Potager(213 Main Street) and 200 North Beach(200 North Beach Boulevard). Read more about these featured businesses here! ​

Shoofly Lifestyle bi-monthly features you'll want to share

A small ranch house with a quartet of "done wrong" additions provides the biggest challenge yet for this pair of seasoned renovators. - story and photos by Ellis Anderson ​​sponsored by Bay Life Gifts & Gallery

Rattling Teacups​Former U.S. Ambassador and survivor of the 1998 embassy bombing in Kenya, Prudence Bushnell, tells that story in her gripping new book, "Terrorism, Betrayal and Resilience." With the emphasis on resilience. - by Rheta Grimsley Johnson sponsored by Jaubert Architecture

Americans love our dogs, but their poo? It's the cause of neighborhood fights, city ordinances and health issues. A veteran dog owner writes about her own clean-up conversion. - story by Denise Jacobs​Sponsored by Friends of the Animal Shelter

A new book by Peter Mayle - My Twenty-Five Years in Provence - has the power to transport a book lover back to the banks of the Seine decades before. - story by Scott Naugle ​​sponsored by Pass Books

Featured Sponsor of the Month

The Cultured Oak

Prime Sponsors

Compretta Insurance Agency

Hansen Custom Painting

Brehm T. Bell, Attorney

bijoubel on Main St.

Crane Builders, LLC

Bubba & Teri Wyly

Bay Town Inn

Gallery 220

Bay Life Gifts

Dr. Frank Conaway

Antique Maison Ulman

Gerald Rigby, CPA

California Drawstrings

Mockingbird Cafe

Bodega on Court Street

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